Latest Commentaries
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Emanuele: Ten Years Later: Reflections on Katrina and Iraq
August 28, 2015
In the end, there are consequences for our actions and inactions. When events like Hurricane Katrina, or the invasion of Iraq takes place, the eventual fallout is immeasurable Read more →
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Finamore: Property Investors Buying, Evicting & Profiting Banks Displacing People
August 20, 2015
There is no question that activism was having an impact on the First Republic Bank Read more →
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August 19, 2015
Our shared future requires faith that whatever lays ahead, small gestures undertaken now – a folded message, a careful planting – are not lost Read more →
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Dolack: Dump The Kid And Get Back To Work
August 16, 2015
Here is the complete list of all the countries in the world that do not provide paid maternity leave for women workers: Papua New Guinea, United States of America Read more →
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Street: The Real Cost of Being Poor: Reflections from the Heartland
August 8, 2015
Serious debates over what the minimum wage should be in various U.S. locales and jurisdictions should start with serious information on what it actually costs to live in the different places where Americans live Read more →
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Street: Trumped: On the Political and Ideological Functions of The Donald
August 6, 2015
Trump's ugly and vicious madness, buffoonery, narcissism, and revanchism help make the “mainstream” Big Money candidates Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton look reasonable, responsible, respectable, mature, and trustworthy by comparison Read more →
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Emanuele: Donald Trump, Working Class Whites and the Left
August 4, 2015
If the Left hopes to win, we're going to need to organize white working class communities, some of whom will transition from reactionaries to left-wing radicals Read more →
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Dolack: Speculators Circling Puerto Rico Latest Mode Of Colonialism
August 1, 2015
The financial industry, in contrast to the mythology it loves to peddle, does not create wealth — it confiscates wealth, attempting to profit off every aspect of human activity Read more →
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Emanuele: War and Culture: Becoming Politically Conscious
July 29, 2015
The next time you run into someone who's the least bit interested in politics, please invite them to your house for a dinner party, not the next local organizing meeting Read more →
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Finamore: San Francisco Too Valuable for Poor People
July 28, 2015
Landlords behaving badly Read more →
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Dolack: We may have already committed ourselves to 6-meter sea-level rise
July 26, 2015
Even if humanity were to stop throwing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere today,... Read more →
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July 21, 2015
If you are going to support some wars, how do you pick which wars not to support? Read more →
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Street: Happiness v. Property: From Jefferson and Franklin to Cuba and the United States
July 18, 2015
When it comes to the pursuit of property, the “rich” U.S. has state socialist Cuba beat hands down. When it comes to human well-being, “poor” Cuba wins just as decisively Read more →
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Leverink: Armenian Heritage Under Threat: The Occupation of Camp Armen in Istanbul
July 17, 2015
As soon as the news broke that Camp Armen was under threat calls for solidarity were shared, leading to a Gezi-like occupation of the site Read more →
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Finamore: San Francisco Immigrants Mourn and Organize
July 16, 2015
ICE prefers to circumvent the legal process in order to engage in massive “round-up sweeps” in communities, schools and workplaces Read more →
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Rasmus: China’s Stock Bubble Bursts
July 11, 2015
The Beginning of a New Global Financial Crisis? Read more →
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Bond: Is BRICS A True Alternative?
July 10, 2015
In turbulent economic times, BRICS will undergird – not undermine – Western financial decadence Read more →
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Dolack: Class Warfare Through Stock Markets
July 9, 2015
The insatiable greed of financiers has reached the point where large corporations are now spending almost all profits on stock buybacks and dividends Read more →
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Roos: Greece’s referendum: one no, many yeses!
July 5, 2015
A victory for OXI would not just help restore a sense of dignity to Greece; it would strengthen the ground for anti-austerity struggles across Europe Read more →
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Lewis: A Struggle without Borders: Charleston a Uniter or Divider?
July 4, 2015
Racial differences in the U.S. cannot be denied, but the greatest tragedy is the lie that we the people do not have a common fight Read more →
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Dolack: G7 leaders fiddle while Earth burns
July 3, 2015
The world has to drastically reduce its consumption. As this is an impossibility under capitalism, another world is not only possible, it is necessary Read more →
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June 30, 2015
While calling Roof a terrorist is important for the historical power it carries, it should be coupled with opposition to the war on terror and more government grabs for repressive powers Read more →
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Roos: Greek referendum: euro crisis explodes into dramatic climax
June 29, 2015
Those who accuse the Greeks of “recklessness” are mistaken: the creditors’ utter contempt for democracy left them with no other choice but a rupture. Read more →
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Peters: How Quaint When the Corporate Media Notices Its Corporate-ness
June 28, 2015
The mainstream media's task is to deliver the purchasing power of the largest possible segment of the population to companies with products to sell Read more →
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Street: Democracy Wrecked Again: On the Fast Track of Corporate Authoritarianism
June 26, 2015
Washington runs on corporate and financial cash, connections, reach, and propaganda, not public opinion Read more →
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Dolack: Building workplace organizations anew
June 25, 2015
Once we realize we don’t need capitalists to make decisions for us, and learn to organize collective self-defense, getting rid of bosses and running enterprises ourselves enters our imagination Read more →
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Raptis: Patriotism, Hypocrisy, and Cowardice in Our Societies
June 23, 2015
Samuel Johnson defines patriotism as “love for one’s country; zeal for one’s country” and scoundrel as “a mean rascal; a low petty villain” Read more →
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Kromm: Charleston and the South’s sordid history of attacks on black churches
June 21, 2015
The assault is part of a history of racial violence striking at a central institution of African-American life in the South Read more →
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Street: Race Violence, Gun Violence: Reflections on Obama’s Charleston Comments
June 20, 2015
At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the depth, degree, and relevance of anti-Black white societal, institutional, and cultural racism in American life Read more →